Sunday, June 17, 2007

What would you do in a Zombie Apocalypse?

You know...I've been considering this whole Zombie Apocalypse thing and I think that, sadly enough, the pros may outweigh the cons.

Pros
1. No more war- If the zombies were to rise up and out-number the living what need would there be to fight among ourselves? I mean we'd be so focused on keeping our brains inside our skulls that we wouldn't care who said what to who hundreds of years ago.

2. No more famine- with the dead rising from their graves and converting those too slow to outwit, outrun and outlast , the demand for food would decrease proportionately....unless of course you were a zombie in a town of quick-footed intelligent prey.

3. The evening news would be more interesting- with all of the brain eating and mass hysteria I can't imagine that there would be a whole lot of reporting on cute children eating too much watermelon or what the weather will be like next week.("What's the weather going to be like next week Marty?....
flash to Marty curled in the fetal position moaning about how he watched the living dead pop his neighbors head open like a jar of jelly and later having to fend off the same neighbor with a can of Lysol, an old sneaker and a wheel of cheese....ummm...right and now for the sports")

4. Closer-knit communities- With the threat of the walking dead infiltrating your neighborhood, people would be more likely to know the people on the block(you never know when knowledge of Jim's, from two-doors down, weak left ankle is going to come in handy if he's chasing you down in a lust for your gray matter)

5. Better articulation- if the enemy of all living souls is walking around grunting and groaning out their words, people would be much more careful about how they spoke

6. Athletic- intelligent people would be producing most future generations- if you can outrun and outsmart a Zombie Horde, then the odds are that you will eventually run across a person of the opposite sex that has done the same, and, being that its the Apocalypse, the chance of a hook-up in your future is pretty high.

Cons
1. There's a pretty good chance you are going to have your brain removed from your head in a gruesome way and devoured by some random person you thought you knew but didn't really expect to become a Zombie so you let them into your safe zone even though you noticed the suspicious bite-mark shaped cuts on their arm and their pallid complexion.

2. I think number one pretty much sums up the cons ....don't you?

If you are caught unawares in a Zombie stampede, pretending to be a zombie to fit in may work, however, think
Dawn Of The Dead and not Michael Jackson's Thriller ... not that either of them wouldn't be sufficient to fool a roving band of mindless brain suckers, it's just that should you come across a group of the uninfected hunkered down in an old farm house, they may opt to leave you to the undead due to the sequined glove and red leather coat.(just a thought but would you let them in?)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

this is fantastic...i think i need to invest in a zombie smasher of some sort though...just in case.